Quebec’s Common Front Unionized Workers Vote to Accept Deal With Province

Union leader Eric Gingras of the CSQ speaks at a news conference on the agreements that were accepted by their members after negotiations with the government in Quebec City, on Feb. 23, 2024. The Canadian Press/Jacques Boissinot

Some 420,000 unionized public sector workers have voted 74.8 percent in favour of accepting an agreement in principle reached with the Quebec government.

The workers, who are part of the “common front” of four major unions representing education and health-care workers, announced on Feb. 23 that the contentious negotiations that led to one of the province’s biggest public-sector strikes have officially come to an end.